Barbora Krejcikova and Elena Gabriela Ruse will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 pm on Court 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Barbora Krejcikova who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Barbora Krejcikova is the pick to win this match.
Barbora Krejcikova -> 1.183
Elena Gabriela Ruse -> 4.85
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Prediction and head to head Barbora Krejcikova vs. Elena Gabriela Ruse
This will be the 2nd time that Barbora Krejcikova and Elena Gabriela Ruse face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Krejcikova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Krejcikova won 6-3 0-6 6-2 in the 1st round in Bucharest back in 2019.
Barbora Krejcikova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5-5 | 5-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-19 | 22-11 | 5-5 | 2-1 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-15 | 12-10 | 2-3 | 9-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-19 | 27-13 | 15-3 | 0-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 22-10 | 7-4 | 9-4 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 30, the Czech will start her run in Abu Dhabi after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 7-5 6-2 to Pegula in the 4th round on the 22nd of January.
Barbora has an aggregate 4-2 win-loss record in 2023, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Krejcikova has an overall 361-191 record. She has a positive 95-71 record on hard.
Previously in Abu Dhabi
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See her history.
Elena Gabriela Ruse
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-9 | 2-1 | 11-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-20 | 18-10 | 6-6 | 5-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-23 | 13-10 | 2-7 | 1-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-16 | 9-5 | 20-8 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-10 | 9-3 | 7-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 148, the Romanian got to the 1st round after defeating Tereza Martincova 6-3 3-0 ret. and Mirjam Bjorklund 6-4 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Bjorklund (6-4 6-1). During the match Gabriela Ruse scored 57 points vs Bjorklund’s 35. Gabriela Ruse was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Gabriela Ruse was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Elena Gabriela Ruse was very effective on serve to win 78% (21/27) of her 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Elena broke Bjorklund 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Elena has an overall 6-3 win-loss record in 2023, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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